Bryson DeChambeau ramped up his summer of golfing success by rolling to a five-shot victory in the 110th Trans-Mississippi Championship presented by TaylorMade-Adidas Thursday at the Meadow Club.
Just a few weeks after finishing second in the California State Amateur, the Modesto native and current Clovis resident captured his first tournament victory since high school.
“I don’t know what to say. It’s been a long time coming, but this one feels so sweet,” he said after the short par putt for the win, highlighted by a small wave and large smile.
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DeChambeau Golfing Honors
DeChambeau, who earned Conference USA Freshman of the Year honors for the SMU Mustangs this spring, shot a final round 69-266 total, 14-under-par. He joins fellow SMU golfer Kelly Kraft, who captured the Trans-Miss title in 2011.
Former University of Arkansas golfer Austin Cook from Jonesboro, Arkansas tied for second with Jeremy Sanders, Chatsworth, California with a 9-under 271 total. Cook shot a final round 70, Sanders had a closing 68.
At one time in the morning third round, DeChambeau had a seven-shot lead, but it slowly began to dwindle. With a bogey on his final hole of the morning round, his lead was down to three shots over Corey McElyea and four over Cook, five better than Cal NCAA champion Max Homa.
After nine holes in the afternoon round, DeChambeau’s lead was down to two shots to Homa, who has played the Alister MacKenzie classic layout hundreds of time as his college home course.
But after Homa bogeyed No. 11, the lead was back up to three shots and DeChambeau lead by five after 15 holes and enjoyed a drama-free back nine stroll.
“When I made bogey on No. 11 and then didn’t make birdie on 12 or 13 that really put me behind the 8-ball on the back nine,” Homa said. “It’s not what I wanted for this week, but I had four rounds at par or better so I can’t be too disappointed.”
Homa, who plans to turn pro later this summer, will be in the amateur Porter Cup in two weeks and will make his Buy.com Tour debut in August in Pittsburgh. He will also play in the U.S. Amateur next month and hopes to make the U.S. Walker Cup team before turning pro.
He wound up finishing tied for fourth with Santa Cruz’s Corey McElyea with an 8-under 272.
Cook’s second place finish was one place higher than last year’s third place standing.
“I played good today, but I didn’t take advantage of my opportunities. Holes 1-3 just killed me today. I never got those figured out,” he said.
McElyea will return to another season playing college golf for USF with plenty of confidence from his Trans-Miss showing.
“I’m ready to keep playing. I didn’t achieve my goal to win, but I played well for four days and that is important.’
The 111th Trans-Miss Championship will be staged next July at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
110th Trans-Mississippi Golf Championship Meadow Club Fairfax, CA
July 9-11,2013
1 Bryson DeChambeau, Clovis – 65-65-67-69–266
T2 Austin Cook, Jonesboro – 65-69-67-70–271
T2 Jeremy Sanders, Chatsworth – 68-69-66-68–271
T4 Cory McElyea, Santa Cruz – 62-73-65-72–272
T4 Max Homa, Valencia – 65-70-67-70–272
T4 Charlie Saxon, Tulsa – 71-69-66-66–272
7 Andrew Buchanan, Los Altos Hills – 69-71-66-67–273
T8 Brandon Hagy, Westlake Village – 65-71-69-69–274
T8 Paul Smith, Turlock – 68-69-67-70–274
T8 Alex Franklin, San Rafael – 69-68-68-69–274
T8 Wyndham Clark, Greenwood Village – 70-70-65-69–274
T12 Trevor Simsby, Carlsbad – 65-71-70-69–275
T12 Curtis Reed, Castroville – 66-71-68-70–275
T12 Clancy Waugh, North Palm Beach – 67-71-65-72–275
T12 Finley Ewing IV, Dallas – 69-67-69-70–275
T16 Brian Campbell, Irvine – 67-72-68-69–276
T16 Jonathan Sanders, Chatsworth – 70-70-69-67–276
T18 Chris Worrell, Enid – 66-72-69-70–277
T18 Tyler Raber, El Macero – 71-71-69-66–277
T20 Vaughan McCall, Gore – 68-70-71-69–278
T20 Ryan Burgess, Rancho Santa Fe – 70-70-64-74–278
T22 Sam Smith, Turlock – 68-72-68-71–279
T22 Jim Liu, Smithtown – 71-70-68-70–279
T22 Cameron Jones, Auckland – 71-71-67-70–279
T25 Johnathan Schnitzer, Houston – 61-73-75-71–280
T25 Steven Kearney, Carlsbad – 68-73-70-69–280
T25 Miguel Delgado, Novato – 69-69-71-71–280
T25 Ben Geyer, Arbuckle – 69-70-72-69–280
T25 Andrew Lister, Katy – 72-67-73-68–280
T30 Logan McCracken, Oklahoma City – 67-73-71-70–281
T30 Brian Jung, Corvallis – 68-72-70-71–281
T30 Matt Mabrey, Little Rock – 71-69-73-68–281
T30 Christian Cichan, Charlotte – 72-67-71-71–281
T30 Ryan Han, Hollister – 72-68-73-68–281
T35 Santiago Gavino, Austin – 67-75-67-73–282
T35 Eric Sugimoto, San Diego – 70-71-72-69–282
T37 Wesley McClain, Diboll – 66-73-72-72–283
T37 Cody McManus, Phoenix – 72-70-71-70–283
T37 Sean Walsh, Keller – 73-64-75-71–283
T40 Rak Cho, Eugene – 66-71-74-73–284
T40 Jack Mulroy, Fresno – 70-69-72-73–284
T40 Rufie Fessler, Bakersfield – 70-71-69-74–284
T40 Kevin Dougherty, Murrieta – 71-71-71-71–284
T40 Michael Garretson, Acworth – 72-69-70-73–284
T45 Lorens Chan, Honolulu – 66-71-74-74–285
T45 Max Mcgreevy, Edmond – 67-72-75-71–285
T45 Matt Pinizzotto, Salinas – 68-73-73-71–285
T48 Austin Smotherman, Loomis – 66-74-76-70–286
T48 Mitchell McLeroy, Mansfield – 70-72-70-74–286
T50 Patrick Grimes, Palo Alto – 71-69-75-72–287
T50 Walker Huddy, Studio City – 73-67-71-76–287
52 David Kim, Redondo Beach – 68-73-74-73–288
53 Brian Knoll, El Dorado Hills – 69-73-73-74–289
T54 Andrew Morgan, Long Beach – 69-69-80-72–290
T54 Robert Funk, Canyon Lake – 72-66-79-73″”290
Missed Cut
T56 Jack Perry, Santa Barbara – 69-74
T56 Eli Cole, Beverly Hills – 69-74
T56 Dalan Refioglu, Foster City – 69-74
T56 Byron Meth, San Diego – 70-73
T56 Pace Johnson, Fresno – 71-72
T56 Michael Brockington, Laguna Niguel – 71-72
T56 Stuart Smallwood, Paris – 73-70
T56 Matt Seramin, San Geronimo – 74-69
T64 Alex McMahon, Oro Valley – 70-74
T64 Andrew Ertel, The Woodlands – 72-72
T64 Ryan Zech, Kearney – 73-71
T64 Cody Robinson, Discovery Bay – 74-70
T64 Will Zalatoris, Plano – 75-69
T69 Joshua Granger, Monrovia – 69-76
T69 Andrew Wyatt, Midland – 70-75
T69 Mills Rendell, Winnetka – 71-74
T69 James Yoon, Bradenton – 73-72
T69 Stephen Summers, Dallas – 73-72
T69 Troix Tonkham, Arleta – 73-72
T69 Keelan Kilpatrick, Berkeley – 74-71
T69 Joseph Ryon, Carlsbad – 75-70
T69 Nick Thomas, Westlake Villiage – 76-69
T78 Andrew J Biggadike, Belmont – 70-76
T78 Tommy Economou, Hillsborough – 70-76
T78 Matt Cohn, San Francisco – 72-74
T78 Travis Wilmore, Alexandria – 72-74
T78 Tanner Kesterson, Plano – 74-72
T78 Kalena Preus, Honolulu – 75-71
T78 David Bartman, Los Angeles – 77-69
T85 Jonny Baxter, Pleasanton – 69-78
T85 Harry Higgs, Overland Park – 69-78
T85 Sam Stevens, Wichita – 71-76
T85 Mason Casper, Mapleton – 71-76
T85 Graham Brockington, New York City – 72-75
T85 Alex Carney, Wichita – 72-75
T85 Nicolo Galletti, Phoenix – 73-74
T85 Will Flitcroft, Chico – 74-73
T85 Cameron Harrell, Colorado Springs – 75-72
T85 Ryan Kelley, The Woodlands – 76-71
T95 Eric Hallberg, Parker – 69-79
T95 Bucky Coe, Encinitas – 71-77
T95 Tom Spencer, San Francisco – 72-76
T95 Charlie Ewing, Dallas – 73-75
T95 Drew Miller, Thousand Oaks – 73-75
T95 Alex Higgs, Overland Park – 73-75
T95 Ben Juffer, West Des Moines – 74-74
T95 John Callahan, Hinsdale – 74-74
T95 Daniel Chian, Covina – 75-73
T95 Joe Sanders, Incline Village – 76-72
T105 David Fink, Kailua – 70-79
T105 Johnny Partridge, Belvedere – 72-77
T105 Scott Newell, Katy – 72-77
T105 Ed Sanchez, San Antonio – 74-75
T105 Vincent Martino, Southlake – 76-73
T110 Matthew Negri, El Cajon – 73-77
T110 Nick Sako, Menlo Park – 73-77
T110 Sarosh Adi, Frisco – 74-76
T110 Evan McLeod, Pebble Beach – 74-76
T110 Brent Brockermeyer, Brentwood – 74-76
T110 Kevin Kobalter, San Rafael – 75-75
T110 Alex Bungert, Moraga – 75-75
T110 Luke Vivolo, Carmel – 76-74
T110 Jonathan Hauter, Morton – 77-73
T119 Stephen Griggs, Sacramento – 72-79
T119 William Brueckner, Walnut Creek – 75-76
T119 Kraig McLeod, Pebble Beach – 75-76
T119 Ben Corfee, El Macero – 75-76
T119 Scotty Raber, El Macero – 76-75
T119 Greg Cesario, San Marcos – 76-75
T125 Jay Burlison, Salinas – 74-78
T125 Henry Cassriel, Orinda – 76-76
T125 Daniel Trevino, Dallas – 80-72
T128 Clayton Madey, West Linn – 75-78
T128 Joe Beck III, Austin – 81-72
T130 Mark Mance, Whitefish – 75-79
T130 Conner Schrock, Mission Hills – 79-75
T132 Andrew Bonner, Ripon – 73-82
T132 Peter Thomsen, Greenbrae – 77-78
T134 Jesse Droemer, Houston – 75-82
T134 Ross Thornton, Leawood – 76-81
T134 Keegan English, Stanford – 78-79
T134 Joe Bendetti, Austin – 79-78
138 Daniel Candler, Atlanta – 80-78
T139 Kyle John, Monterey – 75-84
T139 Tyler Engel, Castle Rock – 78-81
141 Ari Rieger, Mill Valley – 75-85
142 Johnny Macarthur, Newhall – 67-DQ
143 Jonathan De Los Reyes, Antioch – 70-WD
144 Mac McClung, Fremont – WD
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